Discrimination
Discrimination is treatment or consideration based on the group, class, or category to which a person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit.[1] It is considered unethical in American society to discriminate against people for actions or attitudes which are unrelated to their job or role. However, it is often not easy to determine what is relevant or not.
In a famous case in New Jersey, gay rights activists attempted to make discrimination against scoutleaders based on sexual orientation illegal. Lower count decisions were favorable to this campaign, but the Supreme Court sided with the Boy Scouts in 2000.[1]
Discrimination based on religion is also relatively common. Many religions teach that people who believe in other religions are wrong and should be converted. Some religions teach that people of other should be killed. Jews were discriminated in the Holocaust as a result of Adolf Hitler's personal religious beliefs. Muslims are often accused of being terrorists because of their religion because there have been Muslim terrorists.
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- ↑ discrimination (English) (HTML). Dictionary.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-30. “treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.”